May 17th – 18th, 2025 CaDance Festival, The Hague
50 minutes
The Dark Side of Perfection
SENESCENCE is Camiel’s attempt to to counteract its transience and find an answer to it society’s ideal of feasibility. Getting older is an inevitable part of it life. Camiel about this: “As an artist I notice increasingly how my body is failing me starts to let up. The failing functioning of my body is a constant reminder of the inescapable reality: I’m getting older. I feel recalcitrant, but I will do it anyway have to accept.”
SENESCENCE will be an evening-filling experience, in which the audience identifies with one man who cannot do his own transformation accept until he has to. His struggle and acceptance also serve as a mirror for the public, who will also have to deal with a body that ages. Visitors sit around and experience the performance up close. Without a fourth wall. Grand, but intimate and confrontational.